“https://nypost.com/2020/05/07/rt-america-recruiting-us-journalists-ahead-of-2020-election/”— NYPOST, nypost.com
“Some ViacomCBS employees have already been told that their jobs are set to be eliminated.”— Daniel Holloway, variety.com
“The most common elements of coronavirus advertising are familiar by now: Piano music, images of empty streets, voice-overs that invoke “these uncertain times,” and company promises to be there for consumers.”— Nat Ives, wsj.com
“Analyst says Snap’s earnings indicate Facebook and Alphabet could see negative ad revenue growth in second quarter”— Emily Bary, marketwatch.com
“It takes either audacious self-confidence or reckless hubris to build a completely asocial video app in 2020. You can decide which best describes Quibi, Hollywood’s $1.75 billion-funded attempt at a mobile-only Netflix of six to 10-minute micro-TV show episodes. Quibi manages to miss every trend and…”— Josh Constantine, techcrunch.com
“The Outline layoffs were part of a broader set of 24 layoffs this morning at its owner, Bustle Digital Group.”— Joshua Benton, niemanlab.org
“The founders said that they have decided to forego salaries, have made salary cuts for other executives, and have sought assistance from the federal government, but that those were not enough to save the company.”— Lauren Kaori Gurley, vice.com
“RIP to The Outline, honestly one of the last few pubs that was consistently doing innovative shit. From the storytelling to how you navigated the story on their site. You could always tell they cared.”— Lawrence Burney, twitter.com
“Firefox, the global web browser from Mozilla, is launching a new subscription product Tuesday called the "Firefox Better Web initiative," and it will feature former Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile's new product Scroll as a launch partner.”— Sara Fischer, axios.com
“In the span of just a few weeks, the top editors of two leading digital-news outfits called it quits. Ben Smith, who ran BuzzFeed for eight years, took a job writing a column at the New York Times; Lydia Polgreen is leaving HuffPost to oversee a podcast company.”— Paul Farhi, washingtonpost.com
“Entrepreneurship is about seeing opportunity, even in the face of challenge.”— Kunal Gupta, linkedin.com
“Apple made a similar move in 2017 in its Safari browser, but Chrome’s global market share is more than three times greater at about 64%, according to tracking company Statcounter.”— reuters, reuters.com
“What had been an exhilarating initial surge has now become an exhausting slog.”— Kim Kelly, newrepublic.com
“There are different Slack and Facebook groups where everybody is talking at different levels about it. The truth is, there’s not a lot anybody can do.”— Digiday, digiday.com
“We had legal confidence in our position that would cost an average user tens of thousands of dollars (if not more) to obtain. Even all of those advantages were not enough to allow us to effectively resolve this dispute.”— NYU, law.nyu.edu
“Condé Nast, the publishing giant behind Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, said on Friday that it would no longer use nondisclosure agreements for matters involving harassment and discrimination.”— Katie Robertson, nytimes.com
“The Trump campaign has invested most of its advertising budget to date on Facebook, testing thousands of versions of ads per day to maximize its spending.”— Axios, axios.com
“New York Times Co. is leaning toward naming Meredith Kopit Levien as its next chief executive officer, tapping an internal candidate to succeed Mark Thompson after an eight-year stint, according to people familiar with the matter.”— Gerry Smith, bloomberg.com
“IATSE has launched a campaign to unionize the production and post-production workers at The Young Turks, the left-leaning online news outlet that produces a variety of programs, including its flagship talk show, The Young Turks.”— David Robb, deadline.com